If we want the Web to stay relevant we must put huge emphasis on accessibility, usability and design.
YES superficial artsy-fartsy design too. How things look and feel is part of the experience and the Web must be as good or better than proprietary platforms like Android and iOS
Some times the solution is to create a private CA 😶🔫
Running servers with quality software isn’t as scary as someone wants you to think. https://sizovs.net/boring/
Git Worktree: Enhance your Git Workflow https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/git-worktree
Multiple sources of truthiness™
For the past few months, I've mostly been coding by myself. One thing that has helped a lot is that I stopped using GitHub issues and instead create TODO/FIXME comments in the code.
I use a VSCODE extension called Todo Tree to index the comments. For Xcode projects, I found a tiny script that finds the comments and creates a warning when the build runs.
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If you owned the hardware your software is running on you would never consider serverless functions as the architecture
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TIL: Go (like JavaScript) does automatic semicolon insertion
It’s Alive!!!
Selling MVP quality software is 100x easier than selling highly polished software that only exists on a slide deck. Sadly, if you want to sell a product, you have to build it. You could also fake it but IMHO it’s almost always waste of time.
Just updated my "uses" page https://gcollazo.com/uses/
True story
Public service, if your Apple TV remote stops controlling the TV volume just restart the remote. YES the remote https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203777
Carnaval
I like vim for simple and quick file editing but prefer vscode for web dev.
I get people that have a vim/neovim setup that has evolved over years to fit their needs. I envy experienced vim users and how fast they move.
I don’t get people just getting started with vim trying to recreate vscode by installing lots of plugins and spending a lot of time configuring stuff. Most of this people would be better served by enabling vim mode on a more preconfigured editor.
Agree. At this point in my career focusing on a single thing feels too limiting and boring TBH https://world.hey.com/dhh/inspiration-is-perishable-f2c8652e
True Story
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” https://kottke.org/23/02/ted-chiang-chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Si estás haciendo software para un negocio que su idioma principal no es Inglés, está bien (y recomiendo) usar los nombres que usa el negocio en el idioma que sea #unpopularopinion
✉️ Email signstures. Please stop! 🛑
Having Touch ID on the external keyboard is a tiny quality of life improvement that I really enjoy
After years of building SPAs, getting back to the web framework approach to making web apps feels like cheating https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/10vl4eq/django_is_truly_amazing/
🌮 Monday? 🍺
Trolls World Tour is crazy!
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Been writing quite a lot of Python 🐍 lately. Like it!
People using React actually look at Facebook and see excellent front end development?
Trying to use the built-in terminal in iOS instead of iTerm 😵💫 https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/keyboard-shortcuts-trmlshtcts/mac
Lambda Cold Starts analysis. Visualize 10 Cold Starts for each runtime, updated daily https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/
Rockets
Everytime I have to setup git on a new machine theres a new login method 😵💫
Good security engineering has little to do with compliance ✨
Hey YouTubers please remove the mic from the frame or even better use a lavalier 🧘♂️
New website for my consulting business https://blimp.io
The React ecosystem is great if what you sell is online courses and YouTube video views
Switched to using Firefox full time and the experience has been great. Some sites perform better than with Safari for Mac.
Don’t want to write boilerplate? Use a framework. Don’t want to use a framework? Write boilerplate. 👻
Great artists need to know a thing or two about marketing their work
Usar ChatGPT para generar los talking points de los fotutos
Llevar a tres niños a la escuela todos los dias y a tiempo es una batalla 😥
Just realized that I can add Beluga 🐳 support to a lot of shared hosting providers by creating a simple PHP script to list, updaload and delete files. The script must also authenticate the user and restrict files operations to the correct folder. IT’S DOABLE!
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☠️ OUCH! “malicious individual who knew a target node’s database ID could generate and accept a sharing invite for that node without being an admin of the target node’s tailnet” https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins/#ts-2023-001/
Great post. I need to read it again https://rauljordan.com/rust-concepts-i-wish-i-learned-earlier/
Bought a new laptop
This is an insane AWS bill https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1613508201953038337?s=46&t=GridpnLMsET-8z8vK0LCeA
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🤔 In software going wide (superficial features) is better for sales than going deep (complex domain specific features). Good software is a mix of both, great software finds the perfect balance.
My touchbar now flashes 📸 a bright white light for a few minutes every time I wake up my laptop
Our art gallery
Password notebooks are a good idea for most non-technical users. There’s only a few tuings to have in mind to stay secure. The notebook never leaves the house, keep it in a safe place and use a different passphrase for every app or site.
https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1612538664533504000?s=46&t=Ae3PfrSxGpdSnb6P2-hNaw
I’ve been doing some Django web app development these days and I have to say it again. Django is great! 🔥
I missed Django for Web development. It’s really good.
Wireframes are my favorite kind of spec for MVP software 👨💻
The Rivian R1S looks like the Simpsons' Canyonero 🚗
Some folks have asked how will Beluga 🐳 handle a user with thousands of posts.
The short answer is that the beluga.json feed can be trucated after a fixed number of posts. The JSON Feed spec includes a next_url field to handle pagination. I will implement this on the app very soon.
This week I will release a new version of Beluga fixing some of the reported issues with Backblaze
✈️ Going home ☀️
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Boston
❄️ Posting from my vacation just to test the experience with horrible connectivity ⛄️
First post from the cloud ✈️
Make th web weird agan https://localghost.dev/blog/building-a-website-like-it-s-1999-in-2022/
Getting ready ⛄️ ❄️ for the family winter vacation
This is good https://dynomight.net/arguments/
The feedback from yesterday’s launch was great thank you all 🐳
My response to the large feed problem https://lobste.rs/s/hvvf7a/free_twitter_like_app_for_ios_uses_s3#c_12m3f0
Currently on the #1 spot on Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/hvvf7a/free_twitter_like_app_for_ios_uses_s3
Beluga 🐳 got to the #12 spot on Product Hunt
Just published the website https://beluga.social
Beluga 🐳 will launch tomorrow on Product Hunt
I think I might be able to add partial Mastodon 🐘 support to Beluga 🐳
“code isn’t really written so much as beaten it into shape and then refactored” https://pboyd.io/posts/cargo-cult-of-good-code/
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🔥 Very productive day. Designed a website before lunch, worked on some documents for Beluga 🐳 and debugged an issue on an old web app ✨
Development of the Beluga 🐳 website is getting started. Looks like I’m launching the app at some point next week.
GitHub broke the back button
Today I spent all day working on the web site design of https://beluga.social
Anoche recibí este intento de phishing via SMS diseñado para clientes de FirstBank
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Now we wait
Beluga usa el formato JSONFeed para maximizar su compatibilidad. Muchos lectores RSS pueden leer este formato.
En el update de hoy de Beluga arreglé algunos issues en el website generado y también resolvi un problema con los link previews que hacia que aparecieran en el feed (beluga.json)
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Reading text from a web page in Swift is possible but not that obvious
Lo mejor de este break del trabajo que estoy tomando es que apenas recibo emails 🥳
iOS tiene una cantidad gigante de APIs que funcionan excepcionalmente bien
Hello, World!
